Hannah turns 15!

Can you believe that Hannah is 15 years old? I can not. Her birthday this year was a tad busy as she had school and a volleyball game. After the game (which she won) we took her and Kaila out to Top Shelf for dinner and then home to open the few presents that she had. Hannah chose to go shopping for her birthday so we are off to the mall today to pick out what she would like. Her friends decorated her locker and she had enough cake, cookies and candy to last her for some time. Next weekend her and Kaila are celebrating with a party at the house for their joint birthday month with 35 to 40 friends over. I thought I was good about stretching my birthday out for the month but she is so much better!

Hannah Volleyball

Ironwood freshman won their match against Horizon freshman in a hard fought three game match. Hannah is getting better and better in the position of setter and seems to be enjoying the new challenge. Unfortunately the JV and Varsity teams did not fair as well as the freshman. Mike went with me to the game and until the end he did well; when the pain medicine wore off he was ready to go home and hook back up his ice pack (super cool ice machine that he got from the doctor).

Hannah

Hannah got her braces off on Monday! She will actually smile now and show her teeth. She looks great and it was so worth having braces on for as long as she did.

Volleyball Festival

What a great experience for Hannah! 7 days of playing volleyball with teams from all over the world and courts as far as you can see at the Convention Center. She had to be at the convention center every day by 7:00 which mean that we usually left by 6:16am. Long week but so worth it for her to have the playing time and the experience playing so many different levels of play.

Hannah's Promotion

Hannah's promotion ceremony went really well! She did great on her memory speech and had a good time with her friends. After the ceremony, we had Top Shelf for dinner and she hung around with Matt, Julia, Megan and Kelsy. After the dinner, Hannah met up with Grace, Jolene, Kaila, Bryce and Louis for a movie but came over here instead and hung out. It was a crazy day with Grandma Fran's service, the lunch at Nacys and promotion but somehow it all worked out well. I am so coloring my hair today after seeing the pictures!

Volleyball Festival

Final tournament with T.N.T, Hannah's volleyball team. This has been a great experience for her and a huge lesson for me to watch her play volleyball for club versus school or the YMCA. She learned a lot, made some great friends and will hopefully use the experience to grow as a player as well as being part of a team. I have enjoyed the girls and their families and it will be fun to watch the girls progress to High School and beyond.

Promotion Dance and Awards Ceremony

Hannah had her awards ceremony for Marshall Ranch on Friday morning. Hard to believe that she is promoting and moving on to high school when it seems like she just started kindergarten the other day. Such an exciting time for her and I am happy that she will have such great memories of her grade school years. I am really proud of her for being recognized as a leader, for athletics and her grades. I miss the teachers at Marshall Ranch, they have been a huge influence on Hannah and encouraged her to do her personal best at all times.
That night, Hannah had her promotion dance at the King's house. Their house was amazing and the backyard was decorated so beautiful. Megan said it was better than a prom and would love to get married there (no time soon I hope). Hannah had a good time and enjoyed hanging out with her friends and dancing.

End of the basketball season for Hannah

Well they played well but were outmatched by the Oasis team. The first game was against Heritage and Marshall Ranch won in overtime. Hannah was called for a technical foul and was taken out of the game. I was so proud :) Mike told her to get aggressive; maybe he should have qualified the statement and not appear so aggressive that the referee thought she was going after another player. In the second game against Oasis; Hannah scored 2 points with a basket that was nothing but net! Katie and Nancy came and watched the second game as well as Megan. Hannah really appreciated the support and the cheering squad. This ends her basketball season and while this is not her favorite sport; I was proud of all of the effort she gave to learning the game and how much she improved over the season.